Amazon launches a restaurant takeout and delivery service | Engadget "As part of its latest Amazon Local expansion, the internet retailer has launched a new Takeout & Delivery service, allowing customers to browse available local restaurants and order a freshly-cooked meal for pickup or have it delivered to their door." …

Twitter is to use the other apps you have downloaded to make its targeted adverts more relevant to you, it has emerged. According to the Bangkok Post quotes Twitter as saying: "We are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might…

Blocking adverts on the internet is the equivalent of theft, according to the chief executive of PageFair. Sean Blanchfield, who is also the founder of the anti-adblocking company, described adblockers as “like the Napster of the advertising industry”. “[Adblocking] is really concentrated on exactly the kind of people that advertisers are targeting - millennials," he…

We all hate those annoying pop-up ads, or the ads that take over the entire page you are trying to read, or the pre-roll advertising you get on videos. But how many people would be willing to pay to get rid of advertising? Not that many, according to the International Business Times. The site reports…

Facebook has bought online video advertising platform LiveRail for a reported $500m (£292m), the Daily Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says that the San Francisco-based company's technology automatically pairs video ads with the videos that appear on many websites, such as…

Have you ever wondered why Facebook showed you that advertisement for a new flatscreen TV, or a cheap flight to Bermuda? Soon you will be able to find out. Facebook has announced that it will soon give its users, starting…

Mobile operator EE must remove the claim that it offers "Britain's most reliable broadband" from its marketing, after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from rival BT that the slogan was misleading. The Inquirer tells us that BT filed…

As Twitter continues to drive many users mad with paid-for "promoted" tweets, Mozilla is looking to join the commercial world with ads in its Firefox browser. Sky News is reporting that Mozilla plans to introduce advertisements on the pages that…

We may well be used to "shushing" noisy cinema goers when watching the latest silver-screen blockbusters, but viewers of The Dark Knight Rises will be encouraged to be as noisy as possible as the world's first sound activated ad airs…

A new, £30,000 street advert is set to hit a bustop along Oxford Street in London this week, packed full of unique facial recognition tech that will be able to tell whether a man or a woman is looking at…